| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.54 | That very hour, and in the selfsame inn, | That very howre, and in the selfe-same Inne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.82 | For selfsame wind that I should speak withal | For selfe-same winde that I should speake withall, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.7 | Now sways it that way, like the selfsame sea | Now swayes it that way, like the selfe-same Sea, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.161 | For both of you are birds of selfsame feather. | For both of you are Birds of selfe-same Feather. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.20 | Whilst I propose the selfsame words to thee, | Whil'st I propose the selfe-same words to thee, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.169 | Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor. | My selfe haue Letters of the selfe-same Tenure. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.136 | This is a fellow of the selfsame colour | This is a Fellow of the selfe same colour, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.4 | Why, sadness is one and the selfsame thing, | Why? sadnesse is one and the selfe-same thing |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.87 | To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here? | Toth' selfe-same tune and words: who's here? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.93 | In viewing o'er the rest o'the selfsame day | In viewing o're the rest o'th' selfe-same day, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.173 | That bear in them one and the selfsame tongue, | That beare in them, one and the selfesame tongue, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.194 | In selfsame manner doth accuse my husband; | In selfe-same manner, doth accuse my husband, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.141 | I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight | I shot his fellow of the selfesame flight |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.142 | The selfsame way, with more advised watch, | The selfesame way, with more aduised watch |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.11 | Stabbed by the selfsame hand that made these wounds! | Stab'd by the selfesame hand that made these wounds. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.143 | The selfsame name, but one of better nature. | The selfesame name, but one of better Nature. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.287 | More than to Richmond? For the selfsame heaven | More then to Richmond? For the selfe-same Heauen |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.5 | While I with selfsame kindness welcome thine. | While I with selfesame kindnesse welcome thine: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.180 | Teems and feeds all; whose selfsame mettle, | Teemes and feeds all: whose selfesame Mettle |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.139 | The selfsame gods that armed the Queen of Troy | The selfe same Gods that arm'd the Queene of Troy |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.53 | And with an accent tuned in selfsame key | And with an accent tun'd in selfe-same key, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.27 | Out of my memory, and i'th' selfsame place | Out of my memory; and i'th selfe same place |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.2 | The love o'th' people; yea, i'th' selfsame state | The love o'th people, yea i'th selfesame state |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.441 | The selfsame sun that shines upon his court | The selfe-same Sun, that shines vpon his Court, |